Dr. Jongwook Kim joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Professor. What is your journey to Ball State? Before joining Ball State, I worked as an associate instructor in statistics while pursuing my Ph.D. at Indiana University Bloomington. So, Indiana has always felt like a cozy and familiar place to me. I was […]
Dr. Hazem Al-Mofleh joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Teaching Professor. What is your journey to Ball State? Before coming to Ball State, I was Associate Professor at Tafila Technical University (in Jordan). I started my teaching at Tafila Technical University in 2014 as a Full-time Lecturer of Mathematics, I have been converted […]
Dr. Sam Prough joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Professor. What is your journey to Ball State? Before Ball State, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Delaware. I worked with elementary students and their teachers to facilitate classroom discussions in mathematics and consider how they were similar to talk in […]
Dr. Justin Murray joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Teaching Professor. What is your journey to Ball State? I completed my PhD in mathematics at Louisiana State University in 2024. Before that I completed a master’s program at Ball State in 2019. My bachelor’s degree was obtained in 2017 at Indiana University Kokomo. […]
Dr. Cameron Doerr joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Lecturer. What is your journey to Ball State? I received my BA in mathematics from Illinois College in 2020 and my MS in mathematics from Ball State in 2023. After taking a year away from Ball State, having worked in the insurance world, I […]
Melinda Howell joins the Ball State Department of Psychological Science as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Psychological Science. Please introduce yourself—I’d love a snapshot version of who you are and where you call home. My name is Melinda Howell, and I am from the Muncie area originally. I went to grad school in Minnesota, then […]
Mackenzie Riggenbach joins the Ball State Department of Psychological Science as an Assistant Professor of Psychological Science. Please introduce yourself. My name is Mackenzie Riggenbach, and I am originally from Van Wert, Ohio. I have lived in Ohio most of my life except for the last five years when I lived in Norman, Oklahoma. What is your educational […]
Dr. Michael Pilla joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematical Sciences What is your journey to Ball State? I received my PhD in mathematics from Purdue University. I spent a few years at Indiana University, Bloomington before coming to Ball State University. What are your research and […]
Robert M. Damler, FSA, MAAA, joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as a John Beekman Distinguished Professor of Actuarial Science. Professor Damler also serves on the College of Sciences and Humanities Dean’s Executive Advisory Council. What is your journey to Ball State? I graduated from Ball State University in 1987 with a Bachelor’s […]
Dr. Chris Austin joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Teaching Professor. What is your journey to Ball State? I have bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Mathematics from Murray State University, which prepared me well for several years of teaching mathematics at the high school, community college, and university levels. Throughout that […]